This is a shout out for Zohair Yousafi a WordPress ‘Happiness Engineer’.

Well, Zohair you have indeed made me very happy today! Thank you.

I think one of the lessons in life that I have learned along the way, is to play to your strengths and delegate/pay for others skills where necessary.

In 30 minutes Zohair solved my various website problems and taught me how to resolve some of them myself.

Something, I had literally spent hours trying to do…

If content, not code is your thing, I highly recommend a business plan with WordPress, because their ‘Engineers’ are not only super efficient, but super patient and helpful and don’t make you feel like a complete idiot for what I am sure must often be simple solutions.

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I am thinking about planning some interviews while I am there, for an upcoming podcast series I am creating here in Sydney about Health and Lifestyle.

India is a truly fascinating country.

Ideas are only germinating at the moment… in the meanwhile, a cat photo.

This is Ollie.

He is my six-month-old ragdoll kitten and extraordinarily mischievous.

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I’m not venturing out solo but with a small group tour with Intrepid Travel, whose photograph I have used above.

A classic tour around Rajasthan.

Cannot wait for the excitement to begin!

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This week I discovered that I was able to create my own special Camera Effect AR Frame for Stories on Facebook. And of course, had to give it a try!

Facebook is launching a series of new features to help people customise their photos and videos in the social network’s continuing battle with Snapchat, an app that put the camera, photos and video at the front-and-center of social interactions. Today, Facebook is unveiling a new tool that will allow anyone, including Facebook Page owners, to create custom profile frames for user’s photos. It’s also introducing similar capabilities, along with other effects that can be used on both photos and videos, with its new “in-app camera” available in a single test market (courtesy of TechCrunch).

I’m not a graphic designer and had not the first clue but thanks to a very informative Tutorial by Neil Bennett, in Digital Arts I actually managed to create a Frame that Facebook approved. If you would like to try you own, read this article. http://bit.ly/2oHWD6e

It’s a bit cheesy, and floral but did involve some effort. I took photographs of some flowers in Manly. Then used an App called Cutout (Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator does the same) to isolate the little plants.

Uploaded them to Canva and then saved as a PNG with a transparent background.

Simple, when you know how!

Within 24 hours, my Frame was approved and quite a few people have been using it!

I believe it is only contacts within my own Facebook presence that can use the Frame I created but it does open up huge possibilities for digital marketers.

Tomorrow, I will make some suggestions that you might consider to help build your business using this technology. I’d love to hear yours.

If you are interested in Facebook Ads. I highly recommend you read this article.

Power Editor and Ads Manager can be quite challenging if you don’t keep up to date with the fairly frequent changes that Facebook makes.

There are paid options that simplify things like AdEspresso which are excellent if you have the budget for them.

And if you are using Instagram as a stand alone platform, the Ad options are pretty simple to use in comparison to going through the Facebook platform.

However, this article published in Social Media Today written by Jay Shemenski (@jshemenski) sets out the options in a really clear and easy to understand format which is why I thought I would save it here for you all!